Car-replacer.



PATENTED OCT. 22, 1907.

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EUGENE O. WALDORF, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD D. HOWARD, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

GAR-RE PLACER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented oct. 22, 1907.

Application filed March 11, 1907. Serial No. 861,790.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, EUGENE O. WALDORF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Oar-Replacer, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to car-replacers and the object of my invention is to produce a wrecking frog more effective and desirable than any heretofore known.

ln the accompanying drawings illustrating my in- Avention, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a replacer located upon the car-rail in position ready for use. Fig. 2

is an end view of the replacer in the same position upon the car-rail, and Fig. 3 is a side view of the replacer alone, and in each ligure, like numerals refer to like parts.

As will be seen I accomplish the objects of my invention by means of a receiving platform 1, having upon its upper surface a guide plate 2, provided with the groove S between the guiding ribs 3 and 4, and pivoted at one end by means of the toe 13 designed to enter an aperture in the receiving platform near the end thereof and directly above its central supporting and retaining rib 9, which rib extends longitudinally the entire length of the platform, and is designed to rest lengthwise within the groove upon the upper surface of the car rail 12, as shown in Fig. 2, and serve as a retaining support for the platform. rPhe platform also has transverse supports l() and l1, the guiding lugs 5 and 6 and stops 1G which stop is designed to limit the movement of the guiding plate to right or left.

The guiding plate 2 is provided with longitudinal ribs 3 and 4 upon its upper surface which extend the entire length of the plate and serve to form the groove or channel 8 designed for the reception of the flange of the car wheel. lt is also provided with the toe 13 to one end and designed to enter an aperture in the receiving platform and serve as a pivot leaving'the opposite end of the plate free to be swung to right or left, which 40 movement is limited by the lugs 14 and 15 designed to make contact with the central lug 1G upon the upper surface of the receiving platform.

At the extreme end of the receiving platform are companion lugs or short ribs 5 and 6 forming a passage or channel 7 between them, which channel is designed to receive the flange of the car wheel after the wheel has been forced on to the broad end of the platform, then on the guide plate, so that its flange will enter the channel 8, and passing along in this channel 8 will naturally enter Achannel 7 and from this point drop squarely in place in the groove in the car rail.

It will be readily seen that the receiving platform is designed to receive the car wheel from either the right or left side of the rail, and the guide plate is adapted to be swung either to the right or left, so as to place its channel 8 directly in the path of the flange of the oncoming car wheel, and guide the wheel from the position where it is received directly into the channel 7 and into its place on the car rail.

What I claim therefore and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. 1n car-replacers an adjustable guideplate designed to he pivoted at one end upon the receiving platform of the replacerI and immediately above the central rib, so as to permit of the adjustment of its opposite end to the right or left of the center as occasion may require, :ill as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination in car-replacers of a receiving platform having upon its under side a central longitudinal ril) designed to rest longitudinally upon the car-rail, and a longitudinal guide-plate pivoted at one end at a point upon the upper side of the receiving platform immediately above the central longitudinal rib on its underside, all as and for the purpose set forth.

The combination in cara-eplacers of a receiving; plaiform, having upon its under surface a centrally located longitudinal rib extending from end toend, und having upon its upper surface two short parallel ribs located at one end thereof, forming a terminal channel extending to the end of the platform, and a guiding plate, having parallel ribs, located upon the upper surface of the platform and pivoted at one end near the short ribs on the platform, so as to form one continuous channel between the rib on the guiding plate and those on the receiving platform, all as and for the purpose set forth.

EUGENE C. WALDORF.

Witnesses z EDwAi-.D D. HOWARD, SILAs .T. DouGLass. 

